FRS v3.0 ?

By Dydu, in X-Wing Squad Lists

What do you think?

Auzituck Gunship: · Lowhhrick (28)
· Selflessness (1)
· Jyn Erso (2)
Tactician (2)
Phantom II: · Fenn Rau (20)
Draw Their Fire (1)
· R2-D2 (4)
Tactician (2)
TIE Fighter: · Captain Rex (14)
X-Wing: · Biggs Darklighter (25)
· R4-D6 (1)
Integrated Astromech (0)
-- TOTAL ------- 100p. --

Jyn conflicts with Lowhhrick's ability. Both require actions

Jyn from Fenn coordination on PS9

I think we'll need to see the dial and whether or not any of the pieces get nerfed.

But, if not, then this could be deadly. My concern is only that the already anemic punch gets even worse, and you'll suffer badly when trying to turn. But for damage denial, this is pretty solid, more so than what we have already.

I don't like it at all.

The more I think about the low damage, the more it worries me. Biggs seems a bit more likely to have an offensive focus token (and maybe a TL?), but Lowhhrick loses any focus from Rey or rerolls from Wookiee Commandos. Fenn is coordinating either Jyn or Reinforce, so he'll be an unmodified 2-dice, opposed to a double-modified 3 dice. That might as well be giving up his attack altogether. You will be a lot less likely to be able to take advantage of opportunities to deal damage.

I'm not even sure how much tougher the list is in the long run, too. Fenn can regen a few DTF crits with R2-D2, but he only has one shield per round to work with. It's probably better to be able to take 2 or 3 in a round with Jess, than to take 1 per round with Fenn and regenerate it. Next, Fenn gets to prevent *TOKEN* mods for one attack. That'll be useless against an Expertise/Guidance Chips torpedo shot from a Dengar. There are a lot of non-token modifications out there, but even in the best-case of full token-based mods, I don't know that it's that much better. FSR was already pretty good against a small number of highly-modified attacks due to Selflessness and R4-D6, and Fenn doesn't really do much to help against multiple smaller attacks.

It has no meaningful guns. When your best gun is 3 dice with focus, you're going to struggle to do any damage, and Fenn is SIGNIFICANTLY less tough than Jess even with R2.